8024396: VM crashing with assert(!UseLargePages || UseParallelOldGC ||...

8024396: VM crashing with assert(!UseLargePages || UseParallelOldGC || use_large_pages) failed: Wrong alignment to use large pages
Summary: Loosen wrong assert for UseParallelOldGC to UseParallelGC
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

src/share/vm/memory/universe.cpp

@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ ReservedSpace Universe::reserve_heap(size_t heap_size, size_t alignment) {
 
   bool use_large_pages = UseLargePages && is_size_aligned(alignment, os::large_page_size());
   assert(!UseLargePages
-      || UseParallelOldGC
+      || UseParallelGC
       || use_large_pages, "Wrong alignment to use large pages");
 
   char* addr = Universe::preferred_heap_base(total_reserved, alignment, Universe::UnscaledNarrowOop);

test/gc/arguments/TestAlignmentToUseLargePages.java

+/*
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+
+/**
+ * @test TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @summary All parallel GC variants may use large pages without the requirement that the
+ * heap alignment is large page aligned. Other collectors also need to start up with odd sized heaps.
+ * @bug 8024396
+ * @key gc
+ * @key regression
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:-UseParallelOldGC -XX:+UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:-UseParallelOldGC -XX:-UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:-UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseSerialGC -XX:+UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseSerialGC -XX:-UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:-UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ * @run main/othervm -Xms7M -Xmx9M -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:-UseLargePages TestAlignmentToUseLargePages
+ */
+
+public class TestAlignmentToUseLargePages {
+  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
+    // nothing to do
+  }
+}